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LG GBW-H10N Blu-ray Disc Rewriter Review

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After numerous delays that prompted speculations about its chances of winning the format war against the rival HD DVD standard, Blu-ray drives are starting to appear in the market. We finally managed to get one from LG that is capable of a record 4x Blu-ray write speed. Read on for our impression of this new drive.
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First Look: Abit AW9D-MAX

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We have a quick look at one of the first Abit AW9D-MAX mobos let out in the wild. It has all of the right ingredients to become the next IC7-MAX3 - it just needs some time to mature.

Bit-Tech
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Silence is Golden: Silent GPU Roundup

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Today we have a massive roundup of 21 silent graphics cards from seven different card manufacturers. We'll put them all in order and see what kind of performance these noiseless cards have to offer.

AnandTech
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Benchmarking on Trial - Part 2

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A graphics benchmark is only good if it can show the performance a graphics card in graphically limited situations. But a relevant graphics benchmark achieves that goal and still have more than enough relevance to gameplay - particularly at the parts of the game where frame rates are at their lowest.
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SLI vs. Crossfire: Hi-Res Slapdown

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If you want the absolute best PC gaming experience possible and have the money to pay for it, which dual graphics technology setup do you go with: Nvidia's SLI or ATI's Crossfire?
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Intel's Mobile Core 2 Duo: Performance at a Cost

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Today, Intel released a Core 2 Duo processor for laptops, code-named Merom. It's safe to say that with the new mobile Core 2 Duo CPUs, we are seeing some of the performance gains promised. The mobile Core 2 Duo T7600 processor clocks at 2.33GHz and sports 4MB of shared L2 cache. When the mobile processors were put in actual systems--the Alienware Aurora m5550 and Dell XPS M1710--unfortunately battery life suffered a little, lasting just 2 hours and 23 minutes.

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FCC Documents Show Microsoft Zune Nudies, Specs

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New documents on the FCC's website reveal a substantial amount of information about Microsoft's upcoming "iPod killer," the Zune. Microsoft itself has been fairly tight-lipped about the player, but the FCC documents show some pictures of both the inside and outside of the device, as well as a manual with some specifications.
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Multi GPU Running in Vista

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Sometimes we?re quite cynical of what we see and hear when at these shows because of course everyone is going to be telling us that whatever they?re doing is the best, the first the biggest etc etc. So it was with a rather large pinch of salt that we took the news that ATI have Crossfire running in Vista as we watched 3DMark running across three monitors on ATI?s stand.

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Creative Labs blames nVidia for the X-Fi issues

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A few months ago we reported about the X-Fi and nForce-4 compatibility issues. This story still develops and Creative is giving us some more headlines. A Creative fan site has published an update from Creative Labs regarding the issues. It seems that Creative is blaming nVidia?s nForce-4 for these issues; here are the technical details they provided!
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Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Laptop Batteries

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First Dell pulls back 4.1 million laptop batteries, now Apple has announced a voluntary recall of 1.8 million lithium-ion batteries. The affected 1.1 million notebooks include certain models of the iBook G4 series as well as the PowerBook G4 series. The laptops containing the recalled batteries were sold in October 2003 through August 2006. Apple said it had received nine reports of batteries overheating, including two reports of minor burns from handling overheated computers.
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VapoChill LS with Conroe X6800 & FX60

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Asetek sent us a new Vapochill LS for review, so we decided to test it with Intel's baddest Conroe, the Extreme Edition x6800 and AMD's FX60 to see just how far we could get the processors to over clock. Could we push the 2.93ghz conroe to over 4ghz and get it stable? read on to find out.

DriverHeaven
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ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Performance Preview

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With 48 pixel shaders, 512MB of GDDR4 memory operating at 1GHz (2GHz effective), HDCP support, and an all-new redesigned cooling unit that runs much quieter than the X1900 XTX, ATI's Radeon X1950 XTX is certainly designed to impress. But does the new card live up to the hype? Find out in today's article!
Hardware

Pimp Your Home Theater PC

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So you've spent a small fortune on a flat-panel HDTV, a killer audio system, and monthly tithes to the cable or satellite gods. Now you're ready to build a sleek HTPC. Why spoil the view with a cheesy chassis?
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AMD's Next Generation Microarchitecture Preview: from K8 to K8L

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New Intel Core 2 Duo processors took the lead in the processor market these days and AMD has nothing to respond with at this time. However, next year AMD promises to release a Conroe-killer, the CPU based on new K8L microarchitecture. Our newest article is devoted to the details of AMD K8L microarchitecture and how it compares with Core and K8 from the theoretical prospective.

X-Bit Labs
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3D Wireless Mouse for $550

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This is something I would totally get for gaming?I think. As the title states, a group of University of California students have designed a 3D wireless mouse that somewhat works. The idea is to use the mouse without placing it on the surface. In this particular scenario, the students could move the device left, right, up, down, front and back for corresponding movements.
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ATi to Discontinue Intel Chipset Development

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Although ATi has promised the acquisition from AMD would not affect the shipment of Intel platform based chipset, manufacturers are making careful decision on the product development, to lesser or to terminate.
Hardware

Quad-core Kentsfield be supported in P965?

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Good news to consumers. Intel has changed its mind to give P965 to support the upcoming quad-core Kentsfield processors. Kentsfield is Intel?s first quad-core desktop processor for extreme users in which Intel pushed to appear no after than this year. In the original plan, 975X chipset is the only one supporting the new processors. But two weeks ago, manufacturers have received surprising news that Intel had changed its mind to give P965 a new pose.
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AMD AM2 4200+ vs. AMD 939 4200+

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It's that time again folks. That's right, AMD has finally, after many setbacks, released their new socket type. Titled AM2, which uses 940 pins, AMD has used this as the opportunity to move up to newer, and cheaper, DDR2 memory.
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VIA vs. Intel - Core 2 Duo chipset shoot

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Remember VIA Technologies, the Taiwanese chipset manufacturer. Although I once found myself reviewing VIA based motherboards on a weekly basis, it has been over a year now since I last touched a retail motherboard that used a VIA chipset. This being the case I was literally stunned when I came across the ASUS P5VD2-MX which is designed for the new Core 2 Duo processors.
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Benchmarking On Trial

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Performance evaluations are never easy and the argument of using synthetic and real world benchmarks is one that's neverending among reviewers, the general public and even manufacturers. While they are not the perfect tool to capture performance a hardware will offer, they do give us an idea of hardware performance.
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Win a Powercolor X1900GT

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With the help of Powercolor Madshrimps is organizing this give-away for their readers. The X1900GT is a strong middle-high end video card and it will boost your gameplay performance to new heights. This give-away is open to readers from all over the world, it will end on 15th September
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GeForce 7950 GT Performance Previewed

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Upon news of an unannounced GeForce 7950 GT graphics card from Nvidia, the guys at PC INpact have scurried to run some benchmarks (in French) on an overclocked GeForce 7900 GT with 512MB of memory in order to get an idea of the supposedly upcoming card's performance.
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7900GS Benchmark Results Leaked

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HardSpell has leaked some benchmarks of the upcoming NVIDIA 7900GS. If you look at the CPU Test Score, tests seemed to be ran on a slower single-core processor system.

VR-Zone
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Undervolting the AMD A64 X2 4200+ AM2 Processor

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Today Legit Reviews takes the same processor we overvolted to reach an amazing 3.1GHz thanks to water cooling and go the other direction. We undervolt the AMD A64 X2 4200+ AM2 processor and try to find the lowest possible voltage the processor can run still stable at with the hopes of lowering power consumption and system temperatures.
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VGA Cooler Mini-Roundup

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Like the CPU industry, prices are rapidly falling in graphics industry -- high-end cards like the X1900 XT can be found for under $350, while the X1800 XT 512MB is below $200 and the 7900 GT is quickly approaching $250. Prices have never been this good. A lot of these high-end cards however generate a lot of noise, and so many enthusiasts are swapping out the stock coolers for aftermarket units and finding that the new coolers generate less noise with lower GPU temps.
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ATI Theater 650 Pro & Catalyst Media Center Preview

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While NVIDIA impressed us with their DualTV card, ATI has been hard at work fine tuning their Theater 650 Pro processor. Building on the successes of the Theater 550 Pro, ATI brings new enhancements to the overall technology for even greater image quality and performance.
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ATI's R600 has 64 Real Pipes

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We previously wrote that the chip will have sixty four Shader units but we never realised at the time that the design is actually built around a full sixty four physical pipes. That is what various high-ranking sources are telling us. In this scenario, unless Nvidia also managed to triple its pipeline count in the upcoming G80, this chip could lose out big time when put against a 64-pipeline ATI offering.

The Inquirer
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Exclusive Microsoft Zune Details

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Thanks to our awesome tipsters, we scored this exclusive picture of the Microsoft Zune. Yes, it looks almost exactly like the images we've shown you before on Gizmodo. The player also comes with a pair of magnetic headphones, which as you can see from the picture, stick to each other so they're easier to manage.
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Successor of Intel 975X: Bearlake X/G+

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Technology is advancing that new products are too soon to be outdated. To further boost up the CPU capacity, 1333MHz FSB Intel Core based Desktop processors are going to be launched in Mid-2007. For supporting the new CPU, a new chipset corresponding to 1333 MHz FSB would be launched together. Code named Bearlake, it included Bearlake-P for mainstream and Bearlake-G for IGP market.
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Nvidia to Expand Lineup with GeForce 7950 GT

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As rumors swirl about ATI prepping a new Radeon X1950 XTX and its Radeon X1900 XT inches closer to the $299 mark, Nvidia apparently has a surprise in store for next month. Leaked Nvidia slides obtained by Chinese site IT.com.cn reveal the existence of an upcoming GeForce 7950 GT planned for September 14.
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Intel Quad-core Kentsfield Coming in Q4 @ $999

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Sources tipped that Intel has confirmed to release Quad-core Desktop processor earlier to Q4. The price is set at $999, following the traditional price for the most high-end Core 2 Extreme product. Its performance-to-cost would sure be in great advantage than AMD Athlon 64 FX-64, the high-end product from AMD releasing in Q4 also. The first Desktop quad-core processor is originally scheduled in 2007 Q1, yet it has been pushed earlier to 2006 Q4, according to the latest roadmap from Intel.
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D-Link Hardens Firmware For Wireless Bug

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D-Link on Wednesday said it's preparing final versions of firmware updates that address a buffer overflow vulnerability in several of its consumer-grade wireless routers. final versions of the firmware will be available for the four routers: the DI-524 Rev A, DI-524 Rev D1, WBR-1310 Rev A and WBR-2310 Rev A models.

CRN
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G965 updates

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According to our sources, the about to be shipped boards will be carrying with the older drivers for its integrated X3000. Thus, the performance will not be as good if compared to 945G. It is expected that the new driver will be available by October 2006. This is also the month where we will see E4xxx 800MHz FSB series Core 2 Duo processors.

OCWorkbench
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AMD Launches Socket F Opterons

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AMD has finally unveiled its "next-generation" Opterons for Socket F. Like existing Socket AM2 Athlon 64 chips, the Socket F Opterons support DDR2 memory and hardware virtualization features known as AMD-V. The processors slip into a new land grid array-style socket called Socket F. This new socket increases pin count from the previous 940 pins to a massive 1,207 pins.

The TechReport
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Bigfoot Networks Killer Nic Card Seen For The First Time

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I'm sure you've heard about it. I'm sure that you have seen the software rendered pictures. And I'm pretty sure you've seen people saying that the Killer NIC by Bigfoot Networks is nothing more than vaporware. Today Legit Reviews has the exclusive on the first pictures of the card.
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BOSS: FX57 by TechDaddy

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Inspired by the Mustang muscle cars of yesterday, Craig Tate whips out the bondo and the spray paint to create a horsepower-heavy case mod that has what it takes under the hood.

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